Originally Posted by
David McClelland
OK I must be living on a different planet, I must be an alien or I'd have to say everyone is apparently EXTREMELY different.
I've only been doing this for a month and now am faced with buying almost all new clothes.
And yes some of the size/weight gained is some puff around my waist, but not a lot. I carefully planned it that way because I know what it's like to be fat, and I know what causes it.
I used to yo yo diet doing different programs. I have been everywhere from 145-215 lbs. I've done it natty and done it on roids. I've done it on SARMs. I've done peptides. I've done all the diets from NO carb (meat based/Paleo/Atkins et al) to HCLF (High Carb Low Fat) fruitarian (30 bananas a day et al). I know the difference between fat, water, and muscle fiber and I know the difference between glycogen loaded muscle (high carb diet) and depleted flat muscle fibers (low carbs/water).
I haven't done any measurements or a lot of weighing (though I know I was 168 and now am 182) this last time around because frankly I'm just sick of doing it. I'm burned out on it. As long as what's in the mirror is all good, fine.
So yea I've gained a little fat, I'm uptaking water due to creatine intake. But it wasn't going on 20 lbs worth and fat isn't hard when you flex it. It doesn't cause striations to pop out on your thighs, those are muscle fibers and THAT is what is causing me to have to buy new jeans now.
So as far as not changing muscle mass with the shocking strength increases I've had, me, my clothes and everyone making comments and giving me looks must be imagining everything.
Also, I'm talking about muscle fibers, because I didn't change my carb intake when I started SS last month and they were already loaded with glycogen/water.
Maybe there are people out there that have NO change in appearance putting 100 lbs on their bench press, but I was NOT one of them. Maybe they only grow size and make progress doing isolation movements and TUT advanced techniques as novices, but apparently I wasn't one of them and this is the ONE program I wish I would have ran up on when I was 14 years old instead of Muscle and Fitness and my little Weider weights.